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...Oberammergau, between acts of the Passion Play, Queen Marie told correspondents she had congratulated Carol by wire, that he had replied "with affection" and that she would soon return to Bucharest...
...drone of the big plane was heard above Bucharest airdrome, by then brilliantly floodlighted. An army corps and the Prime Minister were at hand. To be ready for all emergencies Bucharest had been placed under what amounted to martial law with General Cenrik Cihoski temporarily appointed Governor of the Capital. Amid much obsequious bowing the Hohenzollern entered a limousine, was driven swiftly to Cotroceni Palace...
This impromptu council was to decide what should be done about Prince Nicholas, who had told Queen Marie in Bucharest that he was going to resign as one of the three regents of Rumania in order to marry a commoner, one Mme. Sayeanu. This would leave the Rumanian royal family without a representative on the regency council which was then reigning in behalf of boy King Mihai. Greatly agitated, with tears streaming down her face, the Dowager Queen left Bucharest, saying, "I am going to the Passion Play at Oberammergau...
...Majesty well knows that King Carol knows that she helped to procure his exile, siding against him and with "her Disraeli" the late, great Prime Minister of Rumania Ion Bratianu (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926, et seg.). Naturally in Bucharest last week Ion's brother Vintila voted against proclamation of Carol as King (see above), but paradoxically Ion's son George Bratianu sided with Carol. After the vote George sought to call on his uncle Vintila who shouted wrathfully: "I am disgusted to see the son of Ion Bratianu acting as an errand boy for Carol. Get out of my house...
...TIME, April 21). The Austrians cheered louder when their President, Wilhelm Miklas, stepped into a plane to be flown about by Capt. F. K. Cannon. Pilot Cannon essayed no stunts; landed his passenger gently, as befits a prospective buyer.* Doolittle's Circus, having shown their wares at Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, will push on to Prague, Berlin...